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for guys:
what would you do and how would you feel if your S.O dont feel like having sex with you at all? they would have sex with you, but only as a reward. like if you took them out somewhere special or you bought them a gift. other than that, they dont have sex with you. they dont initiate it or anything.
to add to that, say you guys been together for like a year and you guys love each other and everything. would you go crazy knowing that she dont wanna have sex with you?
"As a reward" certainly sounds wrong to me. If my wife gave me that impression, I would seriously worry. Not only it would mean that she doesn't like doing it anymore with me, but it would also mean that she's willing to do it against her taste in exchange for something material, which is in fact a sort of soft-prostitution... She certainly wouldn't be the person I've always known, so I really don't think this is going to happen to her, but if it had happened to me with a previous girlfriend, I think I would have probably considered ending the relationship.
On the other hand, it's normal for the sex drive to decrease after a few years of relationship. As long as it doesn't happen too soon (1 year is certainly too soon), it should not be taken as a sign of the relationship going bad! Usually it's a mix of reasons: the gradual fading of the relationship from the "head-over-heels" state to a different type of love, the stress and distraction caused by life (children, house, jobs), and simply the age. It's nothing to panic about, it should just be addressed with some intelligence, and if the two still love each other a balance will be found.
If it happens only 1 year or less into the relationship, then I would be a little worried, and I'd try to really understand the reason. There is always a possibility that the whole relationship was built on passion and attraction only, and can't continue, but first I'd try to make sure before taking some drastic decisions!
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